“This dance opera we’ve created – a story of mermaids, revolution, and resilience – exposes how our BIPOC lineages intersect with Hopkins' legacy of white supremacy. With this show, we are subverting the truth we inherited by imagining nameless, underrepresented & erased Queer/Femme/BIPOC lives as fully realized humans with bodies & stories & movement existing on what used to be his land.”
- The Haus of Glitter Co-Directors:
Anthony Andrade, Assitan Coulibaly, Steven Choummalaithong, Matt Garza, & Trent Lee
- The Haus of Glitter Co-Directors:
Anthony Andrade, Assitan Coulibaly, Steven Choummalaithong, Matt Garza, & Trent Lee
ABOUT
THE HISTORICAL FANTASY OF
ESEK HOPKINS
an activist dance opera by
The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins is an activist dance opera, that reimagines the narrative of Esek Hopkins; the future of our community; the future of public space; the future we will leave behind to our children's children. As we cleanse, heal, and practice liberation with our community, this project is a protest-demonstration against the system that tells us that Esek Hopkins’ former home is worth preserving. We are choreographing for justice.
Created by Haus of Glitter Performance Lab and presented in collaboration with The Wilbury Theatre Group, PRONK! Fest, PVD Fest, with support from Partnership for Providence Parks, and The Rhode Island Foundation, The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins shares the stories, cultures and choreography of the Haus of Glitter’s Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Laotian ancestors. A fabulation created to imagine the missing stories from the legacy of Esek Hopkins’ disastrous slaving voyage on "sally", this activist dance opera imagines what would life would be like today if colonization or slavery never happened by telling the story of a single Black person lost on the voyage, imagining her story, family, emotions, and legacy.
Featuring The Haus of Glitter Dance Company + Performance Lab, April Brown, Becky Bass, Anjel Newman (Medusah Black), Satta Jallah, Shey 'Rí Acu' Rivera Ríos, Sidy Maiga, and over 35+ other local artists.
Created by Haus of Glitter Performance Lab and presented in collaboration with The Wilbury Theatre Group, PRONK! Fest, PVD Fest, with support from Partnership for Providence Parks, and The Rhode Island Foundation, The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins shares the stories, cultures and choreography of the Haus of Glitter’s Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Laotian ancestors. A fabulation created to imagine the missing stories from the legacy of Esek Hopkins’ disastrous slaving voyage on "sally", this activist dance opera imagines what would life would be like today if colonization or slavery never happened by telling the story of a single Black person lost on the voyage, imagining her story, family, emotions, and legacy.
Featuring The Haus of Glitter Dance Company + Performance Lab, April Brown, Becky Bass, Anjel Newman (Medusah Black), Satta Jallah, Shey 'Rí Acu' Rivera Ríos, Sidy Maiga, and over 35+ other local artists.
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Production photos by Erin X. Smithers.
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An award-winning*, not-for-profit professional theatre company, the Wilbury Theatre Group engages our community in thought-provoking conversation through new works, reimagined classics and adventurous playmaking. We are idealistic, ambitious, and stubborn in our resolve to create theatre that entertains, enlightens, and inspires.
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).
